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Formula 1 ran FPV drone footage as a headline feature of its Austrian Grand Prix broadcast on Sunday, June 28, 2026, and the standout sequence put viewers directly above the early on-track fight between Lewis Hamilton in the Ferrari and Max Verstappen in the Red Bull at the Red Bull Ring. The shots aired live…
Confused about which DJI Goggles work with your drone? I break down the FPV Goggles V2, Goggles 2, Integra, Goggles 3, and N3 — and which drones pair with each.
A Ukrainian sergeant won his country’s “Wild Drones” military flying competition by piloting as slowly and carefully as possible, taking 11 minutes to finish a course built for a five-minute sprint while faster rivals collided and crashed around him. Sgt. Zakhar Korol, 37, of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura,” outlasted the field at a…
Stark unveils Cascade and Gambit loitering munitions with fiber-optic guidance and a UK launcher deal, eight months after its Virtus failed every strike.
Hezbollah is now killing Israeli soldiers with the same fiber-optic FPV drones that reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine, and Israel’s main counter-drone tool, electronic jamming, does nothing to stop them. Since April 2026, drones guided by thin optical cables have killed at least ten Israeli soldiers and one civilian in southern Lebanon, according to figures…
A Ukrainian quadcopter-type FPV drone struck a Russian UAZ “Bukhanka” van at a distance of 102 kilometers (63 miles) from the front, with no carrier aircraft launching it closer to the target. The strike was disclosed on May 26 by Serhii Sternenko, the Ukrainian fundraiser and adviser to Ukraine’s Defense Minister, who has spent the…
Australian aerospace engineer Benjamin Biggs pushed his Blackbird speed drone to 730 km/h (454 mph) on a downwind run and 640 km/h (398 mph) flying back into the wind, for a two-direction average of 685 km/h (426 mph). The average clears the 657.59 km/h (408.6 mph) figure that holds the official Guinness World Record for…
A 12-year-old Ukrainian boy snapped a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone's control cable, saving his siblings. The unjammable drone had one physical weakness.
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